Best resource for cleaning up old code?

[jplank]

At my workplace, we have a vba model that has been built over the past 15 years. The people who worked on the model were mostly students that had varying degrees of familiarity with vba, and the result is that much of the code looks like it could be improved (for example, a lot of the code is repeated and could be separated into it's own module, other parts of the code look like they are directly from the macro recorder, etc.). I'm fairly confident in my vba skills and I'd like to clean up the code as best I can. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend books/resources that deal with maintaining/improving legacy code and the best way to approach this? (I saw another thread where someone recommended http://www.refactoring.com/, but it looks like that book doesn't really deal with vba and I'm wondering if there are more recent resources available)

[PCI]

Crost post
http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-q...-old-code.html

[6StringJazzer]

Thanks PCI.

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